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1 JOHN 5:21 eivdw,lwn) {A}
After eivdw,lwn the Textus Receptus, following K L P 81 614 _Byz
Lect,_ reads avmh,n, a common liturgical addition. The earlier text,
without avmh,n, is strongly supported...
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Verse 1 John 5:21. _LITTLE CHILDREN_] τεκνια. _Beloved
children_; he concludes with the same affectionate feeling with which
he commenced.
_KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS._] Avoid the idolatry of the he...
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LITTLE CHILDREN - This is a favorite mode of address with John, (see
the notes at 1 John 2:1), and it was proper to use it in giving his
parting counsel; embracing, in fact, all that he had to say - t...
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VI. CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 5:14-21
The conclusion of this great Epistle mentions first the practical
confidence which a believer may have, the outcome of that relationship
and fellowship with the Father...
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CONCLUSION. A reminder of the writer's purpose, an assertion of the
value and also the limitations of intercessory prayer, and a summary
of the teaching of the epistle.
1 JOHN 5:13. THAT. LIFE: John...
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LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
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LITTLE CHILDREN. App-108.
KEEP. guard, as Jude 1:24.
FROM. App-104.
IDOLS. As in 1 Corinthians 8:4. An idol may not be. material one, but
may consist in whatever. man looks to for help, apart from t...
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Conclusion and Summary
Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the
conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14 21) being a postscript or
appendix, analogous to chap. 21. of the Gos...
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Farewell Warning
_Little children_ As usual (1Jn 2:1; 1 John 2:12; 1Jn 2:28, 1 John
3:7; 1 John 3:18; 1 John 4:4), this refers to all his readers.
keep
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13–21. CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY
Some modern writers consider that 1 John 5:13 constitutes the
conclusion of the Epistle, the remainder (14–21) being a postscript
or appendix, analogous to chap. 21 of t...
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21. Omit the final ἀμήν with [831][832][833] and most Versions
against [834][835].
[831] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery
of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Pete...
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KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS— "Upon the whole then, my dear children,
whom I as affectionately love as a father does his tender babes, let
all these considerations engage you to abstain from every appea...
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CHAPTER XVI
_HEREBY WE KNOW_
1 John 5:13-21
A.
_The text_
These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have
eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of
God...
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Affectionate parting caution.
FROM IDOLS - Christians were everywhere surrounded by idolaters with
whom it was impossible to avoid some contact. Hence, the need of being
on their guard against an ind...
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VERSE 21. LITTLE CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS. AMEN.
Keep yourselves from worshiping idols is the thought. Flee from it !
There have been idols in every age of the world's history; there are...
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6 It is a remarkable fact that the word _ testify _ is used concerning
the Lord's baptism in water (Joh_1:34), and concerning His crucifixion
(Joh_19:35), and here again of the spirit (6). This is con...
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THE LOVE, OBEDIENCE, AND ASSURANCE OF BELIEVERS
1. The reason for brotherly love.
2. This is the converse of 1 John 4:19. Love to God and love to the
brethren being inseparable, each is the test of...
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HOW CAN I BE SURE?
1 JOHN
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 5
*FAITH OVERCOMES THE *WORLD (1 JOHN 5:1-5)
V1 Jesus is the *Christ. Everyone who believes this has been born of
God. Everyone who loves the fa...
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(3) SOME PRACTICAL POINTS RECAPITULATED (1 John 5:18).
(_a_)
_God’s sons do not sin_ (1 John 5:18).
St. John refers back to “that ye may know” in 1 John 5:13, and
sums up three points from former po...
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CHAPTER 1 PART 1
1 John
THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN.
1 John 5:21
AFTER the example of a writer of genius, preachers and essayists for
the last forty years have constantly app...
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The Epistle is finished, and the Apostle now speaks his closing words.
“These things I wrote to you that ye may know that ye have eternal
life, even to you that believe in the name of the Son of God....
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_Filioli, custodite vos a simulacris_ (Vulg.). The exhortation arises
naturally. “This” this God revealed and made near and sure in
Christ “is the True God and Life Eternal. Cleave to Him, and do not...
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ASK ACCORDING TO HIS WILL
1 John 5:13
We know that we have eternal life. The rope is in our hand bearing us
onward, but its ends are hidden from view in the past and in the
future. We also know that...
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The final subject is our fellowship with God in life. This is
fundamental, and is shown to be so. The relationship between the life
of God and the love of God is self-evident, and that is equally true...
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"SIN LEADING TO DEATH"
John next wrote about a "sin leading to death." Several other passages
in scripture appear to speak of that sin (Hebrews 6:4-6; Hebrews
10:26-27; 2 Peter 2:20-22;...
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(19) Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
(19) He expresses a plain precept of taking heed of idols: which he
contrasts with the only true God, that with this seal he might seal up
all...
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_Keep yourselves from idols. An admonition to the new converted
Christians, lest, conversing with heathens and idolaters, they might
fall back into the sin of idolatry, which may be the sin unto death...
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REFLECTIONS
Reader! how gracious was it in our God, to give his Church such tokens
as are here marked down, in order that every child of God might know;
his having been begotten, to the adoption of c...
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And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask
anything according to his will, he heareth us: (15) And if we know
that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petition...
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21_Keep yourselves from idols _Though this be a separate sentence, yet
it is as it were an appendix to the preceding doctrine. For the
vivifying light of the Gospel ought to scatter and dissipate, not...
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But a danger exists on the other side. It may be, that we love the
brethren because they are pleasant to us; they furnish us with
agreeable society, in which our conscience is not wounded. A
counter-p...
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LITTLE CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS, AMEN. From Heathen idols
and idolatry, into which the saints in those times might be liable to
be drawn, by reason of their dwelling among Heathen idolater...
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Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Ver. 21. _Keep yourselves from idols_] Negatively at least (as those
7000 in Israel, that had not bowed their knees to Baal), if not
positively, by...
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_We know_ By all these infallible proofs; _that the Son of God is
come_ Into the world; _and hath given us an understanding_ Hath
enlightened our minds; _that we may know him that is true_ The living...
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FROM IDOLS; from idolatry literal and spiritual; from worshipping or
regarding supremely any created thing....
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LITTLE CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS. AMEN.
Having given the assurance that every true prayer of a Christian is
heard by God, the apostle now specifies one form of prayer, that of
intercession:...
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The obligations of divine sonship:...
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“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and
everyone that loveth Him that begat loveth him also that is begotten
of Him.” The faith that Jesus is the Christ is here seen to
corre...
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18-21 All mankind are divided into two parties or dominions; that
which belongs to God, and that which belongs to the wicked one. True
believers belong to God: they are of God, and from him, and to h...
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i.e. From those idolatrous communions with the Gentiles in their
worship and festivals in their temples, which these pseudo-christians
had latitude enough for, as appears by the apostle St. Paul's
dis...
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Tertullian De Corona
Even an earthly serpent sucks in men at some distance with its breath.
Going still further, John says, "My little children, keep yourselves
from idols,"[37]...
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1 John 5:21 children G5040 keep G5442 (G5657) yourselves G1438 from
G575 idols G1497 Amen G281
Little -...
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THEY ARE TO KEEP THEMSELVES OUT OF THE ARMS OF THE EVIL ONE (1 JOHN
5:21).
‘Little children, guard yourselves from idols.'
It is regularly said that this comes as a rather strange comment at
the end...
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CONCLUSION (1 JOHN 5:14).
John concludes his letter with four major points.
1) The certainty that Christians can have of victory through prayer.
In the face of all that confronts them they can be bo...
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The Epistle winds up with three summarizing declarations, each of
which repeats the watchword, ‘we know,' taken, but in a better
sense, from the Gnostic ‘we know:' the first, 1 John 5:18, asserts
the...
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YOURSELVES
(εαυτα). Neuter plural reflexive because of τεκνια. The
active voice φυλασσετε with the reflexive accents the need of
effort on their part. Idolatry was everywhere and the peril was grea...
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1 John 5:21
Idols.
I. Let us glance at three forms of idolatry against which we must ever
be on our guard. (1) There is the worship of other gods, or false
gods: the worship of Moloch, and Baalim, an...
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1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of
God._
Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. You have accepted Jesus
as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle aff...
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CONTENTS: Faith the overcoming principle. The advantages of faith in
salvation, prayer, preservation from sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan, John.
CONCLUSION: He who has been born agai...
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1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of
God._ The faith which embraces him as the Lord of glory, has a
regenerating influence on the heart. The immediate fruit is love to...
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KEEP YOURSELVES SAFE. The _false gods_ were probably not idols such as
were at Ephesus and Athens. John is certainly speaking about the false
ideas of God which the false teachers substituted for the...
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_Little children, keep yourselves from idols _
THE SIN OF IDOLISING
I. What is the right notion of idolatry, as it still prevails even
among nominal Christians?” I answer generally; whatever is so
de...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:13 Final Call to Faith and Understanding.
“Know” occurs seven times in these verses. This indicates John’s
focus on the assurance of Christian faith and salvation....
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 5:13 may be treated as a summary and conclusion. They divide
into three parts:
1. Faith in the Son of God, eternal life, and love of the brethren
showing itsel...
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 5:1
Faith is the source of love.
1 JOHN 5:1
The verse is a sorites. To believe in the Incarnation involves birth
from God. To be born of God involves loving God. To love God invol...
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Chuck Smith
Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God: and every
one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him
(1 John 5:1).
So I say, "I love Jesus. He is...
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1 Corinthians 10:14; 1 Corinthians 10:7; 1 John 2:1; 2 Corinthians
6:16;...
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Keep yourselves [φ υ λ α ξ α τ ε ε α υ τ α]. The exact
phrase is not found elsewhere in the New Testament. See 2 Peter 3:17.
Rev., rightly, guard. See on 1 Peter 1:4.
Idols [ε ι δ ω λ ω ν]. Strictly,...
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SALVATION MADE SURE
1 John 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Taking stock is a very important thing with the business man. Laying a
good foundation is a very important task with the builder, Feeling
the. pulse...
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SOME THINGS WE MAY KNOW
1 John 5:1, _1 John 5:11_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There may be some places where uncertainties lend enchantment to the
view, but in matters of life and death we want full assuranc...
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Keep yourselves from idols — From all worship of false gods, from
all worship of images or of any creature, and from every inward idol;
from loving, desiring, fearing anything more than God. Seek all...